Mark Consuelos

"Alpha House," a new sitcom premiering Friday via Amazon, is the first fruit of the Amazon Studios pilot derby, which this spring gave ordinary citizens with Internet access a chance to rate and comment on a variety of pilots. The retailer-cum-streaming-service has set itself up alongside Netflix and Hulu as a New Force in Television (or "television") to contend with, and, on this evidence, to welcome.

Of the eight comedies Amazon offered for inspection (along with six children's shows), "Alpha House" was clearly the most likely to succeed. ("Betas," a Silicon Valley sitcom, will also become a series.) Written by "Doonesbury"...

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